Horse-tail holder.



No. 697,242. Patefited Apr. 8, I902.

H. E. GAVITT.

HORSE TAIL HOLDER.

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HARRY E. GAVITT, or TOPEKA, KANSAS.

HORSE-TAIL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,242, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed November 4, 1901. Serial No. 81,094. (No model.)

To ctZZ whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY E. GAVITT, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- peka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Tail Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in horsetail holders, having for an object to provide a construction which can be easily applied and will efficiently serve its primary purpose of holding the tail in such manner as to present the appearance of being docked and will also hold the tail done up, as is desired when the horse is being used in mud; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of the holder applied to a crupper. Fig. 2 is a side view of the holder, parts being broken away and others being shown in section. Fig. 3 shows the holder applied and ready for the straps to be passed tojposition. Fig. 4Eis a side view showing a further application of the straps. Fig. 5 shows the holder in place, and Fig. 6 represents the final application of the holder with the straps hidden from view by the short hairs.

The construction as shown includes a main strap A, which is provided at its upper end with a transverse loop B, elongated transversely and curved to receive and conform to the crupper, and for this reason I will refer to the loop 13 as the crupper-loop. At one side B the loop B is secured to the strap A, while its other side is buckled to the said strap at 13*, so the loop B can be readily applied to and removed from the crupper whenever desired. It will be noticed that the loop 13 extends on opposite sides of the strap A and that it is rigidly secured to the said strap at B, and thus aids in holding the strap in the desired line when applied for use.

On the crupper-loop B, near its buckled end 13 I secure a strap 0, which I term the top strap, as it is arranged at the upper end of the holder and operates to hold the hair of the tail at a point close to the crupper-loop B and also to prevent the tail from coming down when the horse is fighting flies with his tail in the summer. This strap is preferably supplied with a buckle at C, so it can be opened and closed and adjusted as may be desired. Upon the strap A at close intervals I provide straps D, D, D D and D, preferably five in number and arranged in close relation, so they may be used to securely hold the turnedup portion of the horses tail in securing the desired results. In securing the straps D to D I prefer to rivet them to the strap A on the outer side thereof and to extend a strap E over the said straps D to D, the strap E extending in the longitudinal direction of the strap A and being secured to the latter between the cross-straps, as shown. The strap E serves to receive the ends of the straps when the tail is drawn up, so the ends will not be extending loosely, but will be held in place.

In the application of my invention the amp per is passed through the crupper-loop, and the tail of the animal is bent back just be low the tail-bone to a point underneath the crupper, where there is provided the short strap 0, through which the hair is run, or the buckle is unbuckled, and such strap 0 is buckled around the hair, after which a third of the hair which is left isbent down again on the inside, so that the tail is then up and in proper place for the straps to go around the tail. In applying the straps D to D in the use of the device I find it desirable to employ the needle F, which is of metal, pointed and curved at one end and provided in its other end with a socket F, in which may be fitted the pointed ends of the straps D to D When the tail is in proper place to be strapped up, the ends of the straps D to D are put successively into the socket of the needle, and the needle is run around under the hair on top of the tail-bone as close to the bone as possible. When so applied, the strap will be concealed from View and the needle will come out on the opposite side, so the strap can be buckled. After all the straps have been adj usted, as before described, the short lengths of hair will be extending just the same as they were before the straps were put on and will operate to conceal the under straps from View, thus heightening the effect of the tail being docked.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A horse-tail holder substantially as herein described, consisting of the main strap, the crupper-loop secured at one end to the upper end of the main strap, buckle devices for se curing the other end of the crupper-loop to the main strap, a short strap secured to the crupper-loop near the buckled end thereof and arranged for adjustment into ring form for securing the hair from working down and a series of cross-straps secured to and ranging along the main strap below the crupperloop and adapted for use, substantially as set forth.

2. A horse-tail holder provided with a loop for connection with the crupper whereby it may be supported within the folded-up tail of the animal and having at its upper end a strap for securing the tail at the upper returned portion thereof and provided below said strap with a series of cross-straps for securing the hair, substantially as set forth.

3. A horse-tail holder adapted to secure the tail in turned-up position and to be obscured from View within the folded tail when in use p and provided with devices for connection with the harness, with a strap-loop to secure the returned portion of the tail and with a series of hair-securing straps whereby it may operate to so hold the tail as to cause it to present the appearance of being docked,substantially as set forth.

4. A horse-tail holder, comprising a main strap a transverse crupper-loop at the upper end of the main strap, a strap adjacent to the upper end of the main strap for securing the upper returned portion of the hair, and devices on the main strap for securing the hair below the upper returned portion thereof, substantially as set forth.

HARRY E. GAVITT.

Witnesses:

W. W. GAVITT, CHAS. W. GRAVES. 

